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What is compelling?
What is compelling?
Hotdog
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How does it feel to be over 40 and still have the mind of a butthurt ignorant 20 year old?
You need to look no further than who the people are protesting in the streets. Its kids with masks on mixed in with adults with drug problems. Cmon bro. It should be obvious. At what age does your species mature into civilized human being?
Good question.
Of course it’s PR lol. They’ve been joined by Bancorp, Wells Fargo, Boeing.
But it’s efffective PR. That matters.
The Rs just passed a temp spending bill that included temp funding for CHIP into January. The just made a clean sweep of the Ds in December. If the Rs have figured how to pass bills out it could be a long 2018 for the Ds. I see immigration, the budget and infrastructure on the horizon.
Rs better be able to sell their tax bill and be careful on immigration or they could get walloped in 2018 elections.
So, do they play the long game with the elections in mind or do they go the short game and try to pass as much as they can as fast as they can?
I'll offer one possible silver lining to this robbing of the Treasury. This bill will certainly create inflation, allowing the Fed to raise rates to what is considered more normal levels without inducing a recession. In fact, it's reasonable to speculate that in an economy already over full employment, all the lowered taxes will do is go to either inflation or savings. You cannot create jobs or grow the real economy when there are no more workers. You can grow nominal GDP and hopefully improve the debt:GDP. The downside, of course, is that any gain the middle and lower classes would have gotten would be completely erased by inflation. You don't get more money when it's equal nominally to an inflationary increase.
My CBA expires in February and the new CBA is being negotiated right now. Really couldn't ask for better timing. The Union better get a damn good deal out of this, but I don't have a lot of faith in them. Hopefully the national Union guys they bring in for contract negotiations are smarter than our local guys.
Isn't Dannon (or Danone) involved in an "inversion" tax haven strategy? They might be one of the companies that does not benefit from this at all.
Isn't Dannon (or Danone) involved in an "inversion" tax haven strategy? They might be one of the companies that does not benefit from this at all.
What's an "inversion" tax haven? I know they are classified as a public benefit company or some nonsense like that because they pretend to be environmentally friendly and sell nutritious (sugar filled) food.